June 28th, 2008 at 04:02pm Under E-Commerce
Seeking to reassure investors — many of whom were still stinging from Yahoo’s decision to walk away from a multibillion-dollar merger with Microsoft — CEO Jerry Yang and Chairman Roy Bostock sent a letter making their case for hooking up with Google instead of inking an ad deal with Redmond.
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June 28th, 2008 at 04:02pm Under E-Commerce
Sony Ericsson, the world’s fifth-largest maker of mobile phones, warned Friday that its second-quarter profit and sales figures would miss forecasts due to a combination of lower demand for higher-profit handsets and product delays. The company — a joint venture between consumer electronics giant Sony and communications gear maker Ericsson — cited moderating demand for mid- and high-end handsets as well as difficulty in getting new products to market during the quarter as planned.
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June 28th, 2008 at 04:02pm Under E-Commerce
Wait. Scroll. Scroll. Tap-tap. Wait. Wait. For many years, that was the typical experience of someone surfing the Web using a mobile phone or PDA, at least in the U.S. Although some content providers offered stripped-down versions of their sites specially designed for mobile users, most did not.
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June 28th, 2008 at 04:02pm Under E-Commerce
Terri Rossman considers herself a visual learner. So when the 52-year-old marketing professional wanted to learn a new knitting stitch, she turned to the Web. “I searched for ‘knit bobble stitch’ on Google and I found a video of someone doing it,” said Rossman, who lives in the Detroit area. “It was perfect for me.” The Web has become the place where people go to learn new tricks.
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June 28th, 2008 at 04:02pm Under E-Commerce
The explosion in Web-delivered music and video we’re seeing today just wouldn’t be possible without the use of sophisticated encoded compression algorithms, or codecs, and the file storage formats in which compressed audio, images and data are saved. As Internet bandwidth and broadband access has expanded, so has the transmission of much denser digital audio and video files.
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June 28th, 2008 at 04:02pm Under E-Commerce
A few months ago, I spent some time with students at Dartmouth College’s Tuck School of Business. Instead of simply asking questions about managing people and hitting numbers, the students asked what it meant to build a responsible and ethical corporation in the 21st century, in an increasingly globalized world. I suppose I shouldn’t have been surprised by their interest in business ethics.
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June 27th, 2008 at 04:02pm Under E-Commerce
Microsoft’s new hypervisor-based server virtualization software, Hyper-V, is now available for download, and it’s several weeks ahead of “schedule” — though it’s also months late. Microsoft previously wanted to deliver Hyper-V with Windows Server 2008. In any event, Hyper-V is here, and it’s real.
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June 27th, 2008 at 04:02pm Under E-Commerce
Yahoo is setting up a new chain of command amid the turmoil triggered by the embattled Internet icon’s snub of Microsoft’s $47.5 billion takeover bid. Under the new pecking order announced Thursday, Yahoo executive vice presidents Hilary Schneider and Ash Patel are being given expanded responsibilities over the Sunnyvale, Calif.-based company’s products and sales teams.
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June 27th, 2008 at 04:02pm Under E-Commerce
Since the enactment of Sarbanes-Oxley on July 30, 2002, many executives and board members have developed an almost palpable degree of anxiety when it comes to corporate governance and board service. In fact, some friends of mine who have been asked to serve on boards of publicly held companies have answered with a resounding “no!” out of fear of the legal implications and entanglements of serving on a board post-SOX.
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June 27th, 2008 at 12:02pm Under E-Commerce
Google and Microsoft have teamed with Intuit, WebMD and a consortium of more than 100 healthcare providers, insurers and consumer and privacy groups to develop a framework of practices governing online personal health record services. Under the leadership of the Markle Foundation, the Connecting for Health guidelines are an effort by PHR service proponents to establish a common set of principles.
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